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Behavioral evaluation of eight rat lines selected for high and low anxiety-related responses.
Behavioural brain research - 15 Nov 2013
Gomes Vitor de Castro, Hassan Waseem, Maisonnette Silvia, Johnson Luke R, Ramos André, Landeira-Fernandez J
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Anxiety traits can be stable and permanent characteristics of an individual across time that is less susceptible of influences by a particular situation. One way to study trait anxiety in an experimental context is through the use of rat lines, selected according to contrasting phenotypes of fear and anxiety. It is not clear whether the behavioral differences between two contrasting rat lines in one given anxiety...
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